Former WH Reporter for NY Times Calls CPAC "Aviary for Far-Right 'Wacko Birds'"

New York Times columnist Frank Bruni, a former White House
reporter for the Times, followed Sen. John McCain in mocking attendees
of the latest Conservative Political Action Conference (aka CPAC) as
"wacko birds" in his column Sunday on gay marriage at the Supreme Court.

As
for the change itself, look at the last month alone. Look merely at the
Republican Party. Although its 2012 platform called for a
constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, scores of prominent
Republicans, including a few senior advisers to Mitt Romney’s campaign,
broke ranks in late February and put their names to a Supreme Court
amicus brief in favor of marriage equality.

That
these dissidents can’t be dismissed as pure anomalies was made clear at
the annual gathering of the Conservative Political Action Conference
last weekend. CPAC, mind you, is no enclave of moderation and reason.
It’s more like an aviary for the far-right “wacko birds” whom John
McCain recently called out.

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